I’ve spent decades dreaming about the perfect life. It’s about time I let myself have one.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Wintry garden

All through the latter half of
January, our place was such a lovely sight I couldn’t help stepping outside every
few days just to admire our snow-covered garden in sunshine. Quite an accomplishment for
someone who just can’t stand the cold. So I’m posting another set of wintry photos
before the sleet they mentioned in the weather forecast reaches our corner of the world.

In the previous post, I declared my
love for the birch. The cherry plum also looked rather nice. And so did the
Amur maple by the barn.

I observed not only the snowy birch
but also some other plants, when under a light layer of snow, very much resembled their
blooming versions.

In black-and-white, the above mock-orange (jasmike) and white
spirea (Grefsheim) (Norjanangervo) could be mistaken to be in blossom.

At the moment, we have only some
10cm of snow, which would be just fine for me for the rest of the winter, and all
winters to come for that matter. I do hate it when you can’t walk in your own
garden freely throughout the year, which is the case by us most of the winters. Just have
a look here.